Bedliner deck

[metalrain]

In my quest for deck immortality, i'm lining my deck with bedliner. Decks been stripped, and chemically washed... with any rust neutralized (hoping)





Omni MP170 epoxy



Two part bedliner and gun



Freshly sprayed...liner is clear, i added 2 ounce of basecoat per 20 ounce's.





Closeup of texture....my only purpose here is to hopefully extend deck life. I've used this stuff on pickup beds before. You can't scratch it with a screwdriver. I want 40 more years from this deck....i'll flip it over and do the top side tomorrow.....stay tuned..

metalrain

[Diz Jr.]

That looks great metalrain, I used some chepo bed liner on the under side of my deck this past winter. Doesnt look near as nice as what you are doing, but it is a nice hard coating to help protect it. So far this year it looks like it is holding up :biggrin2.gif:

[metalrain]

Got the top side sprayed



This is how it looks after dried



Got the panels and fender stripped for paint...thought id try it on the foot rest



Hit the battery box to



I'll let everything dry and get it back together, give it a test run next weekend

metalrain

[87peppy]

just wondering how this was working out for you. did it help with the grass not sticking and did it still cleanup well. I was thinking of doing the same this fall. thanks

[metalrain]

So far, so good....i've only had the deck off once, after the first couple times i mowed. I had less grass sticking to it, seemed alot easier to clean up (just power washed the bottom off, it all came off pretty easy) Didn't lose any coating, and it didn't look like any of it came off. This was back in the middle of may and only after two mowings. I haven't had the deck off since then because its mowing so well, no plug ups or such. I plan to take it off at the end of august, i'll post some pics of how it looks... should be a much better test.

I coated it this way more for durability than grass sticking. I have a another deck that needs patching in quite a few areas because of rust....I'm hoping this will extend the deck life decades, not years.

I tried this on another deck a few years ago with the "rattle can" bedliner....after a seasons use, alot of it was gone from the bottom. They told me at the paint store if i could destroy the two part industrial stuff, they'd refund my money...give me a few more weeks....i'll let you know how it looks.

(btw...i mow 2 acres, once a week)

metalrain

[super1914]

Looks great. I am also interested in doing that to mine. I am pretty green to spraying...how difficult was this to work with? What did you use to spray this stuff? What was the cost of the material?
Thanks for the posts!

[metalrain]

Super1914;

For it to work properly, you really need a clean rust free surface. I striped the deck to bare metal, then used a phosphoric acid wash (sem product) to neutralize the pitted rust. Sandblasting the deck would have worked better. Gave it two coats of epoxy primer (omni mp170) 30 bucks a quart, the two part bedliner was a 100 dollars. The primer is applied with an automotive type spray gun, the liner with a Schutz gun or undercoating gun, (two coats) you can find them for under 30 bucks. Its the gun in the pic above. I used about half a gallon of the bedliner...I have enough left over to do another deck.

metalrain

[brentwd]

I am really interested in the product you were using on your deck. Could you tell me the company's name on the product? I know it says
Armour liner, but that doesn't come up on the search.

[superduty5.9]

Hopefully this works out for you. I too would be interested if it works out for you. We are using you as a test mule!!:biggrin2.gif::biggrin2.gif:

[metalrain]

Its not a "big" brand name, bought it locally from a auto part/paint store called Hedahls. Don't know if they are a national chain or not. Theres lots of bedliner kits out there, just gotta make sure they are a "two part system". A few that will work well are U-POL raptor, and SEM's rock-it liner
are good. If you want a specific color, you need to buy the "tintable" bedliner whice is usually clear, and you add your color. The Armour liner i used needs a pint per gallon. I used single stage urethane, although i'd stay away from the oil based paints...to long to dry and not alot of UV protection.

Preparation is key...you can go over old paint, but it needs to be clean and scuffed. Its its flaked, or rusty its gonna peel off.... you need a solid substrate. I havn't check the bottom of the deck yet, but i will pull it off this weekend to see what it looks like, and get back to you with some pics.

metalrain